Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-04-09
Victims of Quinine.
ST. Louis Republican.

~ AOS'S PGOiiCdu,
A yonng man with a pale lace, close
clipped hair, graceful moustache, dex-
FERROUS white hands, clad IN the neat
est attire, sgUnJered into tlth
street drug store one day recently
and glanced at that corner OF the room
where the mineral water splgots were
displayed.
Hes q lily, but he's gone on the
drug" whispered clerk. whose duty
it didn't chance to be 10 wait on him.
See he don't even have TO ask Tor
what he wants" continued the clerk.
rs another capsule shooter tr!pped
ninbly up 70 the customer, produced
jar CT pills. poured out q couple,
and presented them to the customer,
with glass OF mineral water 10 iur-
nish them transportation.
The customer swallowed the pills
and mineral water as though they had
been Il part Of his daily food ever
since the war. They wey- evidently
10 him what the in and wogmwood
bracer is 10 he saloon pet, and he
bowed and smiled or the proprietor
as he turned on his heel ana disap-
peared. His shadow WAS still IN sight
when thin, Cadaverous-looklng man,
wearing unmistakable signs OF MINIS
trelsy--a pug hat that was not new
and yards OF hair on the edges OF his
coat entered the door. lie was
stranger in the place and he had to
ask in his artlesS, burnt cork way for
quinine pills before The accommodating
clerk brought down the Jars OF little
pellets. He took three, and, as an
economic measure, undertook TO
make way with them without the
mineral water accompaniment. They
lodged, and he began in a disturbed
tone, as the clerk was presenting his
change
Take out tor a glass
Yes, there is an increased demand
for qu!nine," said the clerk vino had
called attention TO the first customer.
1T is lust like the drinking habit with
men, the demand gradually increases.
The customers for quinine are III the
main, people who consider the use
OF Intoxicating liquors d terrible vice.
They are people OF fraIl physique,
whom q few hours work eXhausts.
They discover that quinine is an APP
petlzer for them and they begin taking
small doses OF it. II four grains
brighten them up III the morning, 1t
will take more than a dozen grains to
produce the same effect in u year.
Most OF them drop into a drug store
in the evening, while on their way
home to dinner. and get n dose OF
quinine pills proportiohed in size to
the time they have been slaves to that
habit. 1t completely knockes out q
confirmed feeder on the insidious drug
to stop using it, and only few ever
make the attempt.
The ladies, too, are Quinine con
sumers. More OF them than you
would ever suspect drop in after the
matinee or after they have made a
long and tiresome round shopping, to
enliven themselves with the seductive
guinine pill. There are not many la
dies who are killing themselves with
the stuff, like many frail clerks and
business men are"
"What does it cost them?"
"Well, from a business point OF
view it is cheaper than whiskey, and
it will kill it's victim quicker than
whiskey. It's cheaper because You
don't set 'em up as often as you do ii
you are a whiskey drinker. If a man
gets away with a dollars worth of
quinine d week he is DESTROYING his life
uretty fast ~